User guide

Monitoring licensed capacity
1. In the Storage Systems tree, select Replications.
2. View the licensed capacity.
Related topics
• Page 80
Monitoring the number of cache management devices
You can monitor the number of cache management devices, such as the current number of devices
and maximum amount allowed in the storage system, in the View Management Resource Usage
window.
1. On the menu bar, select Actions > View Management Resource Usage.
2. From the View Management Resource Usage window, view the number of cache management
devices in Number of Cache Management Devices.
Related topics
• The View Management Resource Usage window in the HP XP P9000 Provisioning for Open
Systems User Guide.
• Page 32
Managing pools and V-VOLs
You can complete the following to manage pools and V-VOLs:
• “Monitoring pool information” (page 57).
• “Increasing pool capacity” (page 58).
Monitoring pool information
1. In the Storage Systems tree, select Pools.
2. View information about a pool.
Related topics
• The top window when you select Pools.
For more information about this window, see the HP XP P9000 Provisioning for Open Systems
User Guide.
Viewing formatted pool capacity
The following are the cases that the free pool capacity is not formatted. In these cases, the free
capacity may not increase:
• Pools other than the selected pool are being formatted.
• The pool usage level reaches up to the warning threshold.
• The selected pool is blocked.
• I/O loads to the storage system are high.
• The cache memory is blocked.
• Pool-VOLs in the selected pool are blocked.
• Pool-VOLs which are external volumes in the selected pool are blocked.
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